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thursdayknights

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Registered: 2007-08-25

Posts: 28

Cheese: "Unable to create video save pipeline"

(cheese:12986): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(cheese:12986): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_bin_add_many: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (element_1)' failed

(cheese:12986): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_link_many: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (element_1)' failed

(cheese:12986): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_link_pads_filtered: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (dest)' failed

(cheese:12986): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_link_pads_filtered: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (src)' failed

** ERROR **: Unable to create video save pipeline
aborting...
Aborted

After entering "cheese" into the terminal, the program starts up, I see a bit of the interface, such as the buttons, but no video. That's in a split second, because the program closes almost right after it comes up. I'm running this program on an Asus Eee. Does anyone know what these errors mean and how I can fix them?

majikstreet

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Registered: 2006-07-31

Posts: 96

Re: Cheese: "Unable to create video save pipeline"

I get the same errors.. I'm not sure what's wrong with it..

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oleg

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Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2

Re: Cheese: "Unable to create video save pipeline"

Getting the same errors trying to use the internal camera on a Sony Vaio. (device 05ca:1836 Ricoh Co., Ltd)
Hmm... I'll try an older revision of Cheese now

zodmaner

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Registered: 2007-07-11

Posts: 653

Re: Cheese: "Unable to create video save pipeline"

I also got this same error on ASUS Eee PC. Would really love to know how to fix this.

For what it's worth, Cheese works fine on Ubuntu.

Last edited by zodmaner (2008-01-30 04:50:16)

hb

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-02-02

Posts: 13

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Re: Cheese: "Unable to create video save pipeline"

I got the same problem, but after installing all gstreamer plugins with

pacman -S gstreamer0.10-plugins

it worked... seems like one of these plugins was needed, but i can't tell you which... didn't hurt to install them all (10 mb or something)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Cheese: "Unable to create video save pipeline"

i also have the same bug. tracking the bug i found that is a problem with gstreamer when using linux-uvc driver:
i quote from cheese/faq
"Try to see if it works with gstreamer-properties. If it works there, please fill a bug. Else bug the gstreamer guys"

the bug is in gstreamer <0.10.6
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477456

Last edited by wonder (2008-02-02 16:07:49)

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dingus

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From: London

Registered: 2006-02-02

Posts: 18

Re: Cheese: "Unable to create video save pipeline"

I got the same problem, but after installing all gstreamer plugins with

pacman -S gstreamer0.10-plugins

it worked... seems like one of these plugins was needed, but i can't tell you which... didn't hurt to install them all (10 mb or something)

Same problem, same solution. (Using linux-uvc with macbook isight)

Probably ought to find out which plugin(s) it is, so that the dependencies can be changed for the package.

Cimi

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From: Padova, Italy

Registered: 2006-01-16

Posts: 301

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Re: Cheese: "Unable to create video save pipeline"

the plugin needed is gstreamer0.10-theora

Last edited by Cimi (2008-03-28 01:30:31)

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bladesonfire

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From: California, USA

Registered: 2007-05-23

Posts: 44

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Re: Cheese: "Unable to create video save pipeline"

I still get the errors after installing gstreamer0.10-theora, and am unable to install gstreamer0.10-plugins because metadata and soup require bad to be >=0.10.6 and cheese requires base to be >=0.10.18, even though both are. And if it matters, my webcam uses gspacv1 and works great with Kopete and xawtv.

Here's the error for cheese:

[bladesonfire@alai ~]$ cheese

** (cheese:8148): WARNING **: Throbber animation not found

** (cheese:8148): WARNING **: Throbber fallback animation not found either

(cheese:8148): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_bin_add_many: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (element_1)' failed

(cheese:8148): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_link_many: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (element_1)' failed

(cheese:8148): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_link_pads_filtered: assertion `GST_IS_BIN (parent)' failed

** ERROR **: Unable to create video save pipeline
aborting...
Aborted

Here's what I have installed with gstreamer:

[bladesonfire@alai ~]$ pacman -Qs gstreamer
local/gstreamer0.10 0.10.18-2
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework
local/gstreamer0.10-bad 0.10.6-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Bad Plugins (gst-plugins-bad)
local/gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.18-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base Plugins (gst-plugins-base)
local/gstreamer0.10-ogg 0.10.18-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer OGG plugin
local/gstreamer0.10-theora 0.10.15-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Theora plugin

bladesonfire

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From: California, USA

Registered: 2007-05-23

Posts: 44

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Re: Cheese: "Unable to create video save pipeline"

I got it to work. Needed gconf, good, and vorbis plugins as well to make Cheese to work. Now I just need the icons in Cheese to show up. Again, here's my gstreamer-plugins.

local/gstreamer0.10 0.10.18-2
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework
local/gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.18-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base Plugins (gst-plugins-base)
local/gstreamer0.10-gconf 0.10.6-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer GConf plugin
local/gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.7-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Good Plugins (gst-plugins-good)
local/gstreamer0.10-ogg 0.10.18-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer OGG plugin
local/gstreamer0.10-theora 0.10.15-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Theora plugin
local/gstreamer0.10-vorbis 0.10.15-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Vorbis plugin

pappbox

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From: Norway

Registered: 2008-01-04

Posts: 42

Re: Cheese: "Unable to create video save pipeline"

Thanks !
worked for me by installing the gstreamer plugins